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Short Title: Short v Jones. Plaintiff(s): John Short, Samuel Short, Augustin Question...
Catalogue reference: E 134/29Geo3/Hil13
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This record is about the Short Title: Short v Jones. Plaintiff(s): John Short, Samuel Short, Augustin Question... dating from 1789 Jan 23-1789 Feb 12 in the series Exchequer: King's Remembrancer: Depositions taken by Commission. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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- E 134/29Geo3/Hil13
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1789 Jan 23-1789 Feb 12
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Description (What the record is about)
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Short Title: Short v Jones.
Plaintiff(s): John Short, Samuel Short, Augustin Question Short.
Defendant(s): Sylvanus Jones and his wife Elizabeth (formerly widow of Jonathan Short), and Samuel Kingdom (executrix and executor of the will of Jonathan Short), and others.
Depositions for: [unspecified].
Subject of Depositions: The value etc and disposition of the personal estate and effects of Alice Siderfin which came to the hands of her executor John Short (late husband of the defendant Elizabeth) and the value etc of the personal estate etc of said testator John Short; Short's estate including a tenement called "Gillitts" situated in the parish of Dunster (Somerset), a chief rent issuing out of the manor of Oare (Somerset), a reserved rent issuing out of a messuage called "Withycombe" in the parish of Oare (Somerset), etc.
County: Devon; Somerset.
Taken at: Tiverton [Devon].
Date of Commission: 28 November 1788.
Document Type: Commission; interrogatories and depositions (9 and 12 Feb 1789), pursuant to a decree of the Court of Exchequer made 22 June 1787.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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- Open Document, Open Description
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- Topics
- Manors
- Litigation
- Wills and probate
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Exchequer: King's Remembrancer: Depositions taken by Commission
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